Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...strong alternative: rest nuclear sovereignty not in individual nations but in the NATO command. This would satisfy the strong national pressure to get defenses out from under direct control of the U.S. It would enable the NATO command to assign each nation to the development of particular nuclear weapons that fit each role in the overall NATO defense picture-e.g., France might specialize in tactical airborne nuclear weapons, West Germany in field weapons...
...whose celebrated sailor father suffered a heart attack while frostbiting at the age of 61 four years ago. Fact is, sailing a dinghy is probably even trickier than sailing a twelve-meter, and a greater test of individual skill. Instead of eleven trained men ready to leap to his command, the skipper has only himself and perhaps one small shivering boy as crew. The slightest shift of weight or twitch of the tiller can make the difference between victory and defeat...
Working with the Army Quartermaster Research and Engineering Command (which suffers from chronic G.I. complaints about tasteless preserved food), the Evans scientists found that waste parts of many foods (e.g., vegetable stems, meat scraps) contain flavor enzymes that can be extracted and preserved separately as a fine powder. When a pinch of these enzymes is added to the preserved food, they go to work on the flavor precursors and restore a good part of the natural fresh flavor. The trick works on many kinds of canned and frozen foods, including blueberries, string beans, broccoli and meat...
Died. Captain George E. Bridgett, 97, British-born seadog who ran away to sea at 14, retired as a tanker skipper for Standard Oil in 1928, but at the outbreak of World War II faked his age, passed his physical and won command of the Liberty Ship Pierre S. Du Pont, celebrated his 80th birthday under heavy bombardment at Malta; in San Francisco...
...trudged through the war chomping a cigar, wearing an old slouch hat and a short blue coat without insignia. One perceptive Union officer saw him as a man with "no nonsense, no sentiment; only a plain businessman of the republic, there for the one single purpose of getting that command across the river in the shortest time possible." Grant learned by doing, and learned slowly. Leading his regiment against the Confederates for the first time, he was beset by a "cold, unreasoned sort of panic," and would have turned back except that he "lacked the moral courage" to give...